Quotes About Power

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.